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Tuesday April 24, 2018

Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.
WP | Jonathan Greenberg | 04/20/18

Posing as 'John Barron,' he claimed he owned most of his father's real estate empire.

In May 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell me how rich Donald J. Trump was. I was reporting for the Forbes 400, the magazine's annual ranking of America's richest people, for the third year. In the previous edition, we'd valued Trump's holdings at $200 million, only one-fifth of what he claimed to own in our interviews. This time, his aide urged me on the phone, I needed to understand just how loaded Trump really was.

The official was John Barron -- a name we now know as an alter ego of Trump himself. When I recently rediscovered and listened, for first time since that year, to the tapes I made of this and other phone calls, I was amazed that I didn't see through the ruse: Although Trump altered some cadences and affected a slightly stronger New York accent, it was clearly him. "Barron" told me that Trump had taken possession of the business he ran with his father, Fred. "Most of the assets have been consolidated to Mr. Trump," he said. "You have down Fred Trump [as half owner] .?.?. but I think you can really use Donald Trump now." Trump, through this sockpuppet, was telling me he owned "in excess of 90 percent" of his family's business. With all the home runs Trump was hitting in real estate, Barron told me, he should be called a billionaire. ... Read more
EXPOSED: Trump Lying About His Wealth Since The 80's | TYT | 04/23/18 | 16:11

James Comey's Memos Reveal the Reasons Donald Trump Wants to Find Leakers and Put Reporters in Jail
TheIntercept | James Risen | 04/23/18

BY NOW, IT is well known that Donald Trump wants to jail reporters in order to force them to reveal their sources. "They spend a couple of days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk," Trump told former FBI Director James Comey, according to a memo Comey wrote after a conversation between the two men in February 2017.

The Justice Department turned over this memo, along with others Comey wrote about his meetings with Trump before he was fired last year, to congressional leaders last week. The memos were leaked almost immediately. Republicans in Congress apparently wanted them out in order to attack Comey. While they don't make Comey look particularly good, they generally make Trump look worse.

Just as the Comey memos were being published, former Forbes reporter Jonathan Greenberg supplied further proof that Trump has been obsessed with how he is portrayed in the press for as long as anyone can remember. Greenberg dug up a 1984 audiotape in which Trump pretended to be someone else in order to try to convince Forbes to include Trump on its roster of the wealthiest Americans. Greenberg says that Trump called him claiming to be an aide named John Barron, hyping the value of Trump's assets in order to get him on the Forbes 400 list. ... Read more
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trump Bullshitted His Way onto the Forbes List | Trevor Noah | 04/23/18 | 5:47

Watch Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Nuclear War
TheIntercept | author | date

Betsy Reed, the editor-in-chief of The Intercept, is moderating a discussion between Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg on the topic of nuclear policy and war. Chomsky, a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona, and Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," are appearing onstage together for the first time. The event will be held at the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences on Tuesday, April 24, at 10 p.m. ET. ... Read more
The Haury Conversation: Daniel Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky Discuss Nuclear War | 04/24/18 | 10:00pm.

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, April 24 [10:49]

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, April 24 (FULL) | 59:02

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No End in Sight for US-Backed Yemen War as Airstrike Kills At Least 20, Including Bride, at Wedding
As Cuba Gains a New President, RaÃºl Castro Steps Back, Not Down, from Power
The Untold Story of How Fidel Castro's Love Affair with ABC Journalist Altered U.S.-Cuban Relations
Activists Demand Release of Manuel Duran, Prominent Latino Journalist in Memphis Jailed by ICE

*Dr. Gerald Horne with host Paul Jay discuss -> Splits in the Ruling Elite Over Trump, Part 2 | TRNN | 04/24/18 | 14:58

Trump, Corruption and the Crisis of the Global Elites, Part 1 | TRNN | 04/23/18 | 18:25

Multiple Killed In Waffle House Shooting | TYT | 04/23/18 | 11:29

The1a.org

A New National Memorial To Victims Of Lynching | 1a.org | 04/24/18 | 1hr

In the century after the Civil War, more than 4,000 black Americans were lynched. Men, women, and children were publicly tortured and killed in acts of mob violence meant to incite fear. "These lynchings were terrorism," says a report from the Equal Justice Initiative.

The 2015 report found that there had been hundreds more lynchings than previously thought, because "there is an astonishing absence of any effort to acknowledge, discuss, or address lynching."

Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and monuments that memorialize the Civil War, the Confederacy, and historical events during which local power was violently reclaimed by white Southerners. These communities celebrate and honor the architects of racial subordination and political leaders known for their belief in white supremacy. There are very few monuments or memorials that address the history and legacy of lynching in particular or the struggle for racial equality more generally. Most communities do not actively or visibly recognize how their race relations were shaped by terror lynching.

Stranger Than Fiction: Reality Catches Up To 'The Americans' | 1a.org | 04/24/18 | 1hr

"The Americans" is a drama series about a suburban American household in the 1980's. But there's a twist: The parents are Soviet agents, and they're embedded on a mission to steal American secrets.

When the show started airing in 2013, the idea of Soviet spies on American soil was almost a quaint relic. But something strange has happened since. Political developments in the U.S. and abroad have breathed new life into Cold War tropes. What was once escapist television now plays like political commentary and many Americans now suspect a reality that is stranger than fiction.

Report Supports Dossier, Contradicts President Trump On Night In Moscow | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 04/23/18 | 6:52

Joe: How Much Longer Can Chief Scott Pruitt Survive At EPA? | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 04/24/18 | 7:13

Dershowitz: 'No way' FBI went after Cohen 'if they weren't interested in' Trump | ABC | 04/22/18 | 10:20

"This Will End Trump's Presidency" Jake Tapper SCHOOLS Trump On His Tweets, Mueller and Cohen | Jon Snow | 04/22/18 | 10:48

Jake Tapper Completely HUMILIATES Trump On His Absurd Behaviour With Staff - Exposes Stats | Jon Snow | older | 16:31

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump Is Flipping Out Over Rumors Cohen Is Flipping | Stephen Colbert | 04/24/18 | 10:47

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trump Bullshitted His Way onto the Forbes List | Trevor Noah | 04/23/18 | 5:47

Late Night with Seth Meyers

*Trump Allies Worry Cohen Will Flip as Scandals Mount | Seth Meyers | 04/23/18 | 10:06

Note: I add this just to expose you to what the Alt Right is listening to. Sometimes pretty scary.

DEEP State Planning False Flag Against Themselves | Alex Jones | 04/23/18 | 22:24

Zaq Detained On Way To Dubai After Exposing Globalist Secrets | Alex Jones | 04/23/18 | 17:21

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Environment & Climate Change

Environment

The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes

Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

Kuznick Interviews

Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

The Untold History of the United States by Kuznick, Peter.mobi | Book | 6.99 MB

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China Valley of Tunnels

China Valley of Tunnels

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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911

911

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
Allegations of pageant dressing room visits(1997)
Mariah Billado,
Victoria Hughes,
and three other Miss Teen USA contestants
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Unnamed contestants (2001)
Samantha Holvey (2006)

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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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